Sunday, February 14, 2021

NEW FROM EFSP - A FAB POST - BEFORE HOLLYWOOD: THE BIOGRAPH COMPANY

Our friends at European Film Star Postcards have a fabulous post on the American Biograph Company---lots of great images and excellent research....enjoy!

BEFORE HOLLYWOOD: THE BIOGRAPH COMPANY

The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a film company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films. The company was home to pioneering director D. W. Griffith and such actors as Mary Pickford (click on the photo), Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.

Edison's chief competitor in the nickelodeon market- The Biograph company was started in New York City by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technology of capturing moving images on film. Dickson left Edison in April 1895, joining with inventors Herman Casler, Henry Marvin, and businessman Elias Koopman to incorporate the American Mutoscope Company in New Jersey on 30 December 1895. READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2021/02/before-hollywood-biograph-company.html

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